Hello from New Zealand!

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PM sent my man.

I should probably add my AE86 history I guess. As stated I've never owned one, but at the age of 18 having dropped of my then Peugeot 405 at the mechanics (again) one of them gave me a lift home in his Jordan F1 yellow road rally AE86. Powered at the time by an 8v 2.0ltr Vauxhall engine I grinned like an idiot and the bug was bitten. I got taken on many of the backroads around Chatsworth house in the UK (remember that from the Lombard RAC Rally of GB?) including one memorable drive up a very twisty hill (like a hill climb) with the Cibies blazing. It was, almost religious.

Shortly after I learned the next door neighbour of a good friend was restoring one (Mercedes bodyshop bloke). Four years later he sold it, after much badgering (like almost every week) to me. Except it was actually to a friend as I had just started uni and couldn't spend my living costs on a car. One the first day of uni I drove through a back road of Derbyshire and spotted a black one on a drive, and again almost four years later, the old woman (only owner) sold it to me. Except having just graduated I was broke so it went to the same friend who bought and wrote off the first one.

I feel like my entire driving history has been overshadowed by these things, and now I think is the time to get to grips with AE86 owenership. I drove both of those my friend bought and loved them. Lots...